Toy gun having a divided magazine



Oct. 24, 1967 HIROSHI YANO TOY GUN HAVING'A DIVIDED MAGAZINE Fil 'edMarch 6, 1964 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 24, 5 HIROSHI YANO 3,348,531

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United States Patent 3,348,531 TOY GUN HAVING A DIVIDED MAGAZINE HiroshiYano, Sekiden Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., 2 l-chome, Jinai-cho,Moriguchi-shi, Osaka, Japan Filed Mar. 6, 1964, Ser. No. 349,841 3Claims. (Cl. 124-27) It is desirable for the toy gun players that theirtoy 7 guns are capable of rapidly and continuously discharging the ballsjust like real magazine guns. With conventional toy guns, however, it isdifiicult for the players to conduct such rapid and continuous shooting,especially when the muzzle of the toy gun is turned to the upwardlyoblique direction, due to the fact that they are generally incapable ofsmoothly feeding the balls in the magazines into a feed hole, throughwhich the balls are dropped the walls being formed between the internalupper wall of the gun body and the upper free end of the wall, therebyenabling the balls, stored in each magazine, to be easily and quicklyguided and fed into said feed hole, and to be smoothly dropped down tothe stopper for the ball, one after the other, to the last ball, so thatthe player may be able to conduct rapid and continuous shooting.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved toygun of the type described, characterized in that a pivoting plate, whichpermits only the balls in the rear magazine to be transferred into thefront magazine, is provided on the internal upper wall of the gun body,said plate being positioned just above the free end of the upwardlyprojected partition wall, and an opening formed above the free end ofthe partition wall may automatically be closed when the muzzle is turnedto the upward or upwardly oblique direction, so as to prevent the ballsin the front magazine from passing into the rear magazine, therebyenabling the balls to .be smoothly down to a position where the ball isstruck to be dis- V vide an improved toy gun of the type described,charcharged, especially when the muzzle is turned to that direction.

It is necessary to turn the muzzle to the upwardly oblique direction inorder to enable the ball to be driven in the distance, since the balldriving power of toy gun is not so powerful in general. Then, the toygun players are apt to turn the muzzle to that direction so that theball discharged out of the discharge bore may be driven as far aspossible. With conventional toy guns of the kind, however, when themuzzle is turned to the upwardly oblique direction, the balls stored inthe front portion of the front magazine above said feed hole are rolledback wardly and apt to pass over the feed hole without fallingthereinto, because, in such conventional toy guns, there is provided nospecific and effective device or means for guiding the balls into saidfeed hole.

The present invention has been devised to remove such drawbacksindicated with such conventional toy guns, and for this purpose,provides an improved toy gun in which a plurality of magazines areformed with one or plurality of longitudinal partition walls, said wallor one of said walls being provided on the rear end of a feed hole,through which the balls in the magazines are dropped down, one by one,to a stopper for the ball, on which the ball is struck to be discharged,and said wall or walls having an opening or openings, through which theballs in each magazine may be transferred into another or the othermagazines, thereby enabling the balls, stored in each magazine, toeasily and quickly be guided and fed into said feed hole, and to besmoothly dropped down to the stopper for the ball, one after the other,to the last ball, so that the player may be able to conduct rapid andcontinuous shooting.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide animproved toy gun in which a plurality of magazines for balls areformedwith one or a plurality of Iongitudinally projected partition wallshaving an opening or openings, through which the balls in each magazinemay be transferred into another or the other magazines, said one or oneof said walls being'upwardly projected from the rear end of the feedhole, and the opening for guided and fed into the feed hole, so that theplayer may be able to conduct rapid and continuous shooting, even whenthe muzzle is turned to those directions.

Still another object of the present invention is to proacterized in thata longitudinal partition wall is provided in the gun body, forming twomagazines for balls, said partition wall being projected from the rearend of the feed hole to the upwardly oblique direction, said wall havingan opening through which the balls in each magazine may be transferredinto the other magazine, and said opening being able to be closed with aslidable plate slidably mounted in said wall, and when said opening isclosed with said plate, the balls in the front magazine are smoothlyguided and fed into the feed hole without passing into the rearmagazine, thereby enabling the player to conduct rapid and continuousshooting, even when the muzzle is turned to the upward direction.

The features of the present invention which are believed to be novel areset forth with particularity in the appended claims. This inventionitself, both as to its construction and action, together with furtherobjects and advantages thereof, may be best understood by reference tothe following description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings in which:

FIGURE 1 is a longitudinal sectional side view of a form of embodimentof the present invention;

FIGURE 2a is a longitudinal sectional side view of a principal portionof a toy gun embodying another particularity of the present invention.

FIGURE 2b is a view similar to the view shown in FIGURE 21:,illustrating the other form of embodiment of the present invention;

FIGURE 3 is a view of the toy gun as shown in FIG- URE 1, illustratingthe state of the .balls being fed into the feed hole, in case when thenozzle is turned to the upwardly oblique direction.

FIGURE 4 is a view of the toy gun in which a pivoting plate is provided,illustrating the state of the balls being fed into the feed hole, incase when the muzzle is turned to the upward direction.

As may be seen from the accompanying drawings, each form of embodimentof the present invention shown in FIGURES 1 to 2b illustrates the toygun in which one 3 partition wall is provided to form two magazines forthe balls.

Turning to FIGURE 1, the toy gun is provided with one longitudinalpartition wall 4 in its gun body 1. Said wall 4 is provided on the rearend of the feed hole A, being projected upwardly and partitioning aninternal space of the gun body 1 into two magazines 2, 3. Numeral 5indicates an opening through which balls 9a, or 9, in each magazine maybe transferred into the other magazine, and the balls 9a, in the frontmagazine 2, transferred from the rear magazine 3 or fed through theinlet 12 for balls are guided and fed into the feed hole A, by means ofaction of the wall 4 and of the guide plate 11 for balls, and the balls9a are dropped down to the stopper 17 for the ball one by one. The ballreceived by said stopper 17 is struck to be discharged by the strikerlever 7 with spring power of the striker spring 8, and is discharged outthrough the discharge bore 10. 13 indicates a slidably mounted cover forthe inlet 12, and it may be opened by ones finger for feeding balls intomagazines 2, 3. 15 indicates the breech, and 14 indicates the pressurespring for the trigger 6. And, numeral 16 indicates the stopper for thestriker lever 7.

With such construction and action, the balls stored in each magazine areenabled to be easily and quickly guided and fed into said feed hole A,and to be smoothly dropped down to the stopper 17 for the ball, oneafter the other, to the last ball, so that the toy gun player may beable to conduct rapid and continuous shooting.

Referring now to FIGURE 2a, there are shown a couple of numerals whichare not shown in FIGURE 1. Numeral 22 indicates a pivoting plate, whichprevents the balls 9a from passing into the rear magazine 3, when themuzzle is turned to the upward or upwardly oblique direction, and 23indicates the stopper for said plate 22, which prevents said plate 22from pivoting anti-clockwise beyond the vertical line.

Turning to FIG. 2b, the partition wall 4 has an opening 5 which may beclosed with the slidable plate 18, slidably mounted in the guide groove19. An opening A through which each ball 9a is dropped down to thestopper 17 may also be closed with the slidable plate 20, slidablymounted in the bottom guide groove 21. When the toy gun player does notwish to discharge the balls he may close both of the openings 5 and A,instead of picking out the balls stored in the magazines 2, 3.

FIGURE 3 illustrates the state of arrangement of the balls 9a beingguided and fed into the feed hole A at the time when the muzzle of thetoy gun shown in FIGURE 1 is turned to the upwardly oblique direction.As illustrated in this figure, the balls stored in the front magazineare smoothly guided and fed into the feed hole A by means of action ofthe partition wall and of the guide plate 11 for the balls 9a. In casethe partition wall 4 is provided on some other position such as on arear position spaced from the rear end of the feed hole A, if a largenumber of the balls are stored in the front magazine, the balls willjostle each other and will not smoothly be guided and fed into the feedhole.

FIGURE 4 also illustrates the state of arrangement of the balls 9a beingguided and fed into the feed hole A at the time when the muzzle of thetoy gun shown in FIG- URE 2a is turned to the upward direction. As maybe seen from this figure, the opening 5 may be automatically closed withthe pivoting plate 22, when the muzzle is turned to that direction. Saidpivoting plate 22 being stopped by the stopper 23, so that said pivotingplate 22 may not be pivoted anti-clockwise beyond the vertical line.When said opening 5 is closed with said plate 22, the balls 9a areprevented from passing into the rear magazine 3, thereby enabling theballs 9a tobe automatically and smoothly guided and fed into the feedhole.

As aforementioned, according to the present invention, the balls storedin the magazines are smoothly guided and fed into the feed hole. Inorder to feed the balls 9a in the front magazine 2 into the feed hole A,the toy gun player has only to turn the muzzle slightly to the upwardlyoblique direction, and if he wishes to transfer the balls 9 in the rearmagazine 3 into the front magazine 2 he has only to turn the muzzle tothe downward direction. Further, if he does not wish to use the balls 9in the rear magazine 3 he may close the opening 5 with the slidableplate 18 as shown in FIGURE 2b.

As may be seen from the foregoing description, the partition wall 4functions not only as a partitioning member to form a plurality ofmagazines in the gun body 1 but also as a guide member for balls. Theshape, height, number and angle of the partition wall may be other thanthe examples shown in the accompanying drawings, and they my suitably bemade in the manner to meet the requirements for the purposesaforementioned.

Through many times of experiment, I have found it undesirable to providethe longitudinal partition wall, which directly guides the balls intothe feed hole, through which each ball is dropped down to a positionwhere the ball is struck to be discharged, on a position forwardly orrearwardly spaced from the feed hole. I have found that if saidpartition wall is provided on a position forwardly or rearwardly spacedfrom the feed hole, to smoothly feed the balls thereinto becomedifiicult, due to the fact, as previously mentioned, that as the muzzleis turned to the upwardly oblique direction or to the upward direction,the balls are apt to pass over the feed hole instead of fallingthereinto or jostle each other in the magazine above the feed hole.

In the result, it has been found that, in order to smoothly feed theballs into the feed hole, the partition wall must be provided on aposition closest to the rear end of the feed hole.

Thus, as shown in FIGURES 1 to 2b which respectively illustrate eachform of embodiment of the present invention, the partition wall isprovided on the rear end of the feed hole.

However, any other modified form other than those herein described ofembodiment of the present invention may be of course possible withoutdeparting from the spirit of the present invention.

In conclusion, in accordance with the present invention, with suchconstruction and action as described hereinbefore, the balls stored ineach magazine are enabled to be easily and rapidly guided and fed intosaid feed hole A, and to be smoothly dropped down to the stopper 17 forthe ball, one after the other, to the last ball, so that the toy gunplayer may be able to conduct rapid and continuous shooting.

I claim:

1. An improved toy gun comprising, a gun body having a dischargeaperture in the front end thereof, front and rear magazines in said gunbody for storing balls to be discharged by said gun, a verticalpartition wall having an opening disposed in said gun body to definesaid front and rear magazines, said partition wall at its lower enddefining a feed aperture for said balls to drop singly therethrough fromsaid front magazine, said partition wall projecting upwardly from therear end'of said feed aperture, planar shutter means extending from theinternal upper wall of said gun body in substantial alignment with saidpartition wall to form said opening, and striking means for dischargingeach of said balls when said balls are in alignment with said dischargeaperture after passing through said feed aperture.

2. An improved toy gun comprising, a gun body having a dischangeaperture in the front end thereof, front and rear magazines in said gunbody for storing balls to be discharged by said gun, a verticalpartition wall having an opening disposed in said gun body to definesaid front and rear magazines, said partition wall at its lower enddefining a feed aperture for said balls to drop singly therethrough fromsaid front magazine, said partition wall projecting upwardlyfrom therear end of said feed aperture,

planar shutter means extending from the internal upper wall of said gunbody in substantial alignment with said partition wall to form 'saidopening, and striking means for discharging each of said balls When saidball is in alignment with said discharge aperture after passing throughsaid feed aperture, said partition wall forming a portion of saidopening and projecting upwardly obliquely from the rear end of said feedaperture.

3. An improved toy gun as defined in claim 2 wherein said partition wallhas a pair of internal guide grooves in the sides thereof, and saidshutter means comprises a shutter plate slidably mounted in said guidegrooves whereby said balls may be selectively transferred from said rearmagazine to said front magazine.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 11/1957 Yamauchi 124-49 X 5/ 1958Saito 124-27 1-1/ 1960 Tylle 12450 10/ 1965 Yano 124-49 FOREIGN PATENTS11/ 1954 Belgium.

W. R. BROWNE, Assistant Examiner.

Examiners.

1. AN IMPROVED TOY GUN COMPRISING, A GUN BODY HAVING A DISCHARGE APERTURE IN THE FRONT END THEREOF, FRONT AND REAR MAGAZINES IN SAID GUN BODY FOR STORING BALLS TO BE DISCHARGED BY SAID GUN, A VERTICAL PARTITION WALL HAVING AN OPENING DISPOSED IN SAID GUN BODY TO DEFINE SAID FRONT AND REAR MAGAZINES, SAID PARTITION WALL AT ITS LOWER END DEFINING A FEED APERTURE FOR SAID BALLS TO DROP SINGLY THERETHROUGH FROM SAID FRONT MAGAZINE, SAID PARTITION WALL PROJECTING UPWARDLY FROM THE REAR END OF SAID FEED APERTURE, PLANAR SHUTTER MEANS EXTENDING FROM THE INTERNAL UPPER WALL OF SAID GUN BODY IN SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT WITH SAID PARTITION WALL TO FORM SAID OPENING , AND STRIKING MEANS FOR DISCHARGING EACH OF SAID BALLS WHEN SAID BALLS ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID DISCHARGE APERTURE AFTER PASSING THROUGH SAID FEED APERTURE. 